Mark Williams's Blog – January 2012 Archive (3)

Recent figures have revealed that more families have satellite television than life insurance – in fact half of families have satellite TV but just 40% have life insurance.

The report also found only 13% of families had critical illness cover while 14% had insurance for their mobile phone.

Similarly 13% had taken out an extended warranty on electrical items, more than…

Jimi Hendrix , Diana Princess of Wales, Barry White , Bob Marley and Jill Dando... What have these people got in common ?

Well other than the obvious that they are all deceased, the common factor is that they all died either without making a will or failed to update it before dying.

Jimi Hendrix’s family squabbled for years over his estate as he died…

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) absence management annual survey report recently highlighted that stress is the second biggest cause of short term absences and one of the leading causes of all long-term absences for non-manual workers.

It also highlighted a perhaps previously unknown fact that women are nearly three times more likely to take stress-related absence than men,…